Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

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Bottom Line: 555

stisev reviewed v1.64.3 on Feb 21, 2009

If anyone is using Samurize, MAKE SURE to checkout uziq's "pagescraper". This makes Samurize worth having BY ITSELF!

DKDude reviewed v1.64.3 on Jul 3, 2008

This is a MUST HAVE, I've been using this for some years, and it's so cool.

BTW. is it dead? it's a year since last update.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.64.3 on Apr 4, 2007

Great stuff! As always! :D

stisev reviewed v1.64.3 Beta on Feb 16, 2007

Arguably one of the greast programs ever coded for the Windows platform.

Bravo.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.64.3 Beta on Feb 6, 2007

God bless this app. Great stuff.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.64.2 on Dec 21, 2006

Great application. Mega flexible and it really does make your desktop look "cool".

The only thing I'd like is for the program to be updated more often. I mean, the update before this was like months ago. Other than that, simply great.

TheQuestor reviewed v1.64.2 on Dec 21, 2006

The best just keep getting better. This is a must have. Once you learn the editor, there is nothing you can not do with this. I used it to monitor all my PCs, display useful information, and for general peace of mind. Freeware projects such as this deserve our support. Toss them a few dollars on the donate button and feel good about helping a great project continue.

zik reviewed v1.64 on May 26, 2006

if the resources consumed to just show stats lowered, the this would be 5stars
(not everyone has 1GB of ram)

stisev reviewed v1.63.1 on Dec 4, 2005

Klusternisse, shut up.

14MB here and running MASSIVE graphic-intensive Samurize plugins n' things

some guy reviewed v1.63.1 on Oct 13, 2005

very nice program indeed, for the power user and someboady that has a fast machine with alot of ram, the little testing that I did based on prosscess. my machine is to slow to add more I curently run 18 proscess, and after adding a few meters brought me to 20, so I had to uninstall program,need speed not looks. But does what it says very well not for the gammer user.

Cure110 reviewed v1.63.1 on Oct 13, 2005

Yeah... Resource-hog-my-ass...

guti reviewed v1.63.1 on Oct 13, 2005

Klusternisse, if Samurize is resource hog, eatting less than 4 Mb of RAM, what's your alternative?

Klusternisse reviewed v1.63.1 on Oct 13, 2005

resource hog

ModderXManiac reviewed v1.63 on Sep 26, 2005

Freakin' awesome app.

a6 reviewed v1.62.1 on Aug 24, 2005

i am watching this one since a long time now... and it became a wonderful app - and it's getting even better! respect to it's programmers! this utility is great! so much possibilities, so configurable. just one word: brilliant.

sQin reviewed v1.62.1 on Aug 23, 2005

best of the best!

scriptee reviewed v1.62 on May 19, 2005

Best of its kind by far!

I currently use it to check the services running on my server and checking my mail :-)

If anyone knows how to (if its possible) have a picture show up when mail arrives and play a "you've got mail" audio clip when mail arrives please let me know :-) That would be pretty cool.

Jean-Luc Picard reviewed v1.62 on May 19, 2005

Not easy to use. But a good program.

Muaddib69 reviewed v1.61 on Mar 1, 2005

I started using it about beta 0.9, and now I can't live without it.
Whatever is possible with samurize.
Try it!

perica reviewed v1.61 on Feb 28, 2005

Too good to miss it, it just gets better and better, and for the learning, its like swimming, once u get its all joy.

Primis reviewed v1.61 on Feb 28, 2005

Samurize is very, very powerful.

Its editor is not easy to use though, despite what people say. You largely need to already have some good programming and scripting chops to get it to do what you want, including configuring a lot of the downloadable addons and modules. And documentation is sketchy -- both provided and online. There are a lot of assumptions made that the user already knows certain things.

If you really know what you're doing, it's for you. It's very powerful, versatile, and can do a whole lot. If you don't though, you're better off sticking to something like DesktopSidebar or Rainmeter or something, because you'll only find frustration with trying to figure out Samurize. And for that reason I can only give it a 4.

-- Primis.

ahjefri reviewed v1.60 on Oct 24, 2004

This is my first time using this software, I liked it, it takes far less to design your own or modify exsiting config than any other meters like sysmetrix of rainmeter. I am stuck on the callendar plugins.
The only thing it would be nice if have the feature to start another samurize by just choosing it from the menu. Just like rainmeter.
I will give it five for the simplicity and power at the same time..

Raiderman reviewed v1.55 on Jul 13, 2004

I have been associated with Samurize for over a year now, and I must say that this little gem of a program has evolved into something very special. Not only has NeM taken the program to new levels, but the crew is outstanding, and the community is one of the best on the net....bar none....

Stoff3 reviewed v1.55 on Jul 13, 2004

I first started using Samurize a year or so ago, when it was at 0.60 or somesuch. Even back then, it was an awesome application. Now, at 1.55, it has evolved into something even better and the screenshots section of www.samurize.com speaks as evidence of this.

I have no problems giving this app 5/5. It's just that good.

scriptee reviewed v1.55 on Jun 27, 2004

I'm not much of a "Status Bar" type person, but I must say that Samurize is everything that you could ask for in a stats bar application.

The cherry on the top is its scripting functionality: Write a windows script in VB, cant it in a *.vbs file, then create a custom little visual things and choose the input as the return value of a function in your script. Awsome stuff :)

Only 4 for me though. I didnt some of the UI's to be the best I've seen ;)

TheQuestor reviewed v1.55 on Jun 27, 2004

It simply doesn't get much better then this. And on top its free. NeM and company really work hard on this and deserve a few donations people.

kernelsn reviewed v1.55 on Jun 24, 2004

Great !!!

romualdrichard reviewed v1.55 on Jun 24, 2004

Better and better.
I am using it for a while now and it's great!

Ok, it's taking ages if you want a nice configuraiton but there a lot of OOTO on there site :)
After a try, you won't let it go. It's so useful : weather, cpu temp, spac left... TV, cartoon.... Anything you want o your desktop.
Also, you can monitor all the server you have on your LAN ;) if they are using Windows

DamnLag reviewed v1.50 on Jun 14, 2004

in reality this program only deserves a score of 1.. it has consumed too much of my time.. my wife has left me.. the kids wont speak to me.. but on the other hand.. its really f***ing cool. :)

Cure110 reviewed v1.41 on Apr 15, 2004

Thanks to felttippin, urbanriot and the rest of you for the very kind words. I am one of the founders and original programmers for samurize, since a year back NeM is doing a superb job improving the little app. felttippin, thanks for the donation, you are a direct reasons that the program is still alive. The bandwidth speedup is thanks to (believe it or not) stardock, who is now hosting our webpage for free. If it wouldn't for theese guys i'm not sure the project would still be continued. Anyways. Just want to thanks for all the kind words, you guys are the reason that the samurize-crew still working hard.

felttippin reviewed v1.41 on Apr 15, 2004

Great program. I use it all the time. It uses a very low amount of resources, very fast, HIGHLY customizable. I use it EVERY day. Takes a little tweaking for your personal preferences. Awesome program! If you find a bug, they fix it FAST!

As for the bad post, the site is twice as fast in Mozilla than it is in IE for me. I have downloaded it using Mozilla, and it worked fine. It does get a a TON of traffic. They must have recently updated the site's bandwidth. Good to see my paypal donation at work.

urbanriot reviewed v1.40 on Apr 13, 2004

Wow, I can't believe some retard rated this program a lousy score because he can't download in a buggy browser.

This program f'n rocks, and the sky is the limit with what you can do once you get the hang of the scripting... plenty of downloadable pre-made scripts on the web site.

Stephan Schwartz reviewed v1.31 on Mar 25, 2004

Rocks. Hard.

joske reviewed v1.30 on Mar 19, 2004

foobar2000 support. great!!

sld reviewed v1.25 on Feb 20, 2004

Has a rather challenging learning curve, but if you keep at it you'll love it! Very nifty desktop info display tool, looks nice even with a bit of newbie manipulation.

perica reviewed v1.20 on Feb 8, 2004

Great program, must have, lets you full control or fancy addon for desktop, you name it he got it. Randal review the software and not web pages or IE. Rating 6!

NeM reviewed v1.20 on Feb 5, 2004

Errr you're giving the program a bad review because Mozilla can't handle downloading via PHP redirects?

We have to take measures such as these to prevent people hotlinking to our files - samurize.com consumes an awful lot of bandwidth, which we have to watch to monitor to keep our free host happy.

randal2k reviewed v1.20 on Feb 4, 2004

intresting program, really like it. but there website is slow and downloading through mozilla is horrible, they use a php redirect.. anyway, since downloading without IE is a pain, i have rated it a 3. I do that becuase adding onto this program is part of what makes it cool. (remeber guys IE = BAD )

ranasrule reviewed v1.0 on Nov 21, 2003

AMAZING!!! SAMURIZE simply rocks.....no other program even comes close....the amount of configurability and costimization samurize offers is mind-blowing

romualdrichard reviewed v1.0 on Nov 21, 2003

A must Have!
Really GREAT and stable...

Configuration tools is not really user friendly (Unable to group meters, if a meter is under an other unable to get it back to move it...) that's why I put only 4.

Very Good!

slepax reviewed v1.0 on Nov 21, 2003

AMAZING!!!!

Ozzy1 reviewed v1.0 on Nov 21, 2003

I use this program both at home and at work. At work I use it to check a download-directory for new files, get bandwith from the servers and lots more. At home I use it to show the tv-programs and the usual bandwith, clock, winamp, uptime stuff... a REALLY great program, it has never failed me. This is a must-have!

kingthorin reviewed v0.98b on Nov 19, 2003

This tool blows everything else in it's class completely out of the water. Beside Samurize Coolmon (heh text....lame!) and StatsBar are pathetic.

NXChew reviewed v0.98b on Nov 18, 2003

This is simply an amazing program.
It now comes with a very basic config file for you to start playing with, and has a fully functional installer. With the recently added taskbar support, there is simply no other program out there that can compete with Samurize. And yes, you can now download other people's configurations and use them on your machine. Can life get any better? I submit that it cannot!

reemtmsma reviewed v0.98b on Nov 11, 2003

This is awesome piece of code, but it has a major disadvantage that I cant force Samurize to display it's stats under all of the litestep virtual desktops. Can somebody help me with that?

Rob2771 reviewed v0.98b on Nov 10, 2003

I know I reviewed this way back in 0.63c days, but it deserves even more compliments. This program just keeps getting better and better. The people behind it are extremely helpfull on their forum pages and are quick at dealing with bugs. Nothing beats this, Good work guys!!!!

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.93d on Oct 8, 2003

For about half(?) a year ago I was one of the programmers/authors of the Samurize project. Sadly, the university took too much of my spare-time, so I couldn't spend any time working at Samurize. We handed over the sourcecode to our great crewmembers. And now, half a year later i must say that Samurize is better than ever! Great work guys!!!! / Oscar L (aka Sim)

steaLer reviewed v0.93d on Sep 24, 2003

kicks ass. really. i've been using it for about 6 months now. other than the occassional crash, it works great.

Agon reviewed v0.93d on Sep 24, 2003

This is a pretty amazing program.
The gigantic versatility of samurize is impressive, from just about ANY system information, to weather, TV programming, calendars, news, program control, game server chek, you might want and I even suspect this critter does come with the kichten sink! Most programs out there do not have half the power of Samurize and are paid for, this program has been and ramins FREE, I do encourage those who can to hit the donation button on the samurize.com website, it is well worth it. It consumes very little system ressources, you can have it a simple desktop interface or as elaborated as you want. You can also have it run on your windows taskbar, I am not sure there is more that could be asked for. Support is, also, excelent, the people i the website forum go to great lenght to help those who need and most will share their scripts and configs which is not ususal and greatly apreciated.
Give it a try, if you need only your CPU temp showing, or dozens of other at the same time, you will love this program. Power, versatility, design Samurize got it all.

Attyk reviewed v0.90b on Jul 20, 2003

I dont think its fair to give this awesome program a bad review cause someone is green to run it. Perhaps some computer courses are in order...

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.85 Beta on Apr 7, 2003

RedBadger> I'm sorry you haven't been able to set up the program. But here's a quick step-by-step: ---1. The program doesn't need an installer, just unzip the files you downloaded. ---2. Start config.exe ---3. Click the "Add Meter"-button and select a meter. ---4. Repeat step 3 until your satisfied. ---5. Save your config in the Configs-folder ---6. Start Client.exe, click the SysTray-icon and select your config. --- Btw, there's a tutorial at: http://samurize.com/SamurizeTutorial/tutorial.html check it out. It's written by one of our CrewMembers. I agree Samurize can seem a bit scary at first sight, but give a try and you'll get a hang of it. :) (Damn, i wish i could post without voting)

RedBadger reviewed v0.85 Beta on Apr 5, 2003

I'm rating this a one because it comes with NO installer, and doesn't work when I try running either .exe file, and there are no instructions for even installing it, all it tells you is how to uninstall it.

The graphic screens I have seen look real nice, but until I can figure this stupid thing out (which I shouldn't have to be doing) it gets a one rating.

tigika reviewed v0.85 Beta on Mar 19, 2003

The best program I have seen overall. The developers are great and very responsive. Even eager to meet all users desires. If Oscars was given to program developers they'll get one!

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.84 Beta on Mar 5, 2003

MadEx2k2> Please report at the forum at samurize.com with a detailed description (which meters your using etc.) and i'll take a look at it.

MadEx2k2 reviewed v0.84 Beta on Mar 5, 2003

The best of the best. But I have a feeling that .8x drains my memory after a while.

dayle reviewed v0.81 Alpha on Feb 23, 2003

awesome..wonder how they did it but the new version consumes onl 2.4 mb ram while the .63 version used to consume 13mb..this one does more than what i used tomake .63 do...u guys are the best ..keep em comin

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.80a Alpha on Feb 20, 2003

Word from the authors: Please remember that this is only a technical preview of Serious Samurize. The debuging code hasn't been removed and all optimizations hasn't been done. Bugs can and will exist in this version, which we released mainly to let people get a feel of the new Config-program, perhaps make some cool skins and to let us, the authors, be able to remove all major bugs quickly.

Agon: Can't wait to see what you can come up with using this version :)

Agon reviewed v0.80a Alpha on Feb 20, 2003

I have been using this for years, since CureInfo and this version is in fact the culmination of years of coding and use, this is just the perfect sysmon !!!

jaimz reviewed v0.80a Alpha on Feb 19, 2003

samurize is the best and will always be the best stat viewer around, I also like the fact that my icon was used w00t 4 me! :P but none of my skins did OH WELL maybe later

Enigma_03 reviewed v0.80a Alpha on Feb 19, 2003

wo0t! My skin made it into the install. I am so honored.

iamalsohere reviewed v0.80a Alpha on Feb 19, 2003

Even though the website stresses not to use this version for day to day use I've had no problems with it! The new editor options are fantastic and I can't think of a product that rivals samurize!

Rob2771 reviewed v0.63c Beta on Sep 1, 2002

I have been using this program for about a week now - an in my opinion it kicks ass. Yes it takes some time to get used to and setup, but is that not what it's all about? It can only get better.

fluke75 reviewed v0.63c Beta on Sep 1, 2002

I've tried Stylebuilder and its quite easy to use for such an application. You can use it in conjunction with other programs such as Adobe Photoshop to make really neat stuff, but Stylebuilder is not a mature applicaton yet. It is full of bugs, and I will wait a while untill I decide to add it to my system. Well, it is a program for fun porpouses only, and creative people, who are patient at the same time, should give it a try.

tekvic reviewed v0.63c Beta on Sep 1, 2002

the "whats on tv" option in the screenshot blew me away, too bad I have nether the patients or skill to work with this program. offer templates and premade designs and this program gets a five.

_zombie_ reviewed v0.63c Beta on Aug 30, 2002

Okay, I tried 5.2.0.0 (actually before reading your post, guys) I figured it was only fair to come back and correct my previous review... Samurize rocks... big time... Was kind of disappointed that there's no skinning support (yet, I see that's planned for Serious Samurize) Get this program now!!

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.63c Beta on Aug 29, 2002

_zombie_>> Thanx for reporting in! I just tried it myself with MBM 5.2.0.0 and it worked perfectly. MBM 5.2.0.0 was released today, so if you haven't had the time to download and tried it, you might want to give it a shot.

ilasoft reviewed v0.63c Beta on Aug 28, 2002

Very nice app… A few features missing (like the ones discussed below), but I can see how it's going to become one of the favorite skinnable app @deviantart and others. I use it and I like it ;)

eviljolly reviewed v0.63c Beta on Aug 28, 2002

Simply amazing. Config editor is very simple yet powerful. You can monitor virtuall any aspect of your computer with the built in features or by writing a script of your own. Not to mention it is completely customizable. Check out some of the screenshots of people's setups on their website.

SwAsH reviewed v0.63b Beta on Aug 21, 2002

I would use this great app for my servers, however they do not have any GeForce 1 compliant graphic card installed, which is a pity. I look forward to a version that do not require such graphic cards.

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.63b Beta on Aug 20, 2002

jackeric>> People *do* want to share their configs. We have however disabled this function in the database at samurize.com, people just can't upload their configs. If you read my earlier post you can see that at this moment it just isn't possible to share diffrent configs. But just try asking for help in the forum at samurize.com or the author of any config you find. Lots of the Samurize-users wants to help out and teach people how to make good configs. Remember Samurize is at v0.63. We just haven't had the time to add all features we want in it yet. Import/Export is coming right up :) Then we expect a 5-rating from you too! :D

jackeric reviewed v0.63b Beta on Aug 20, 2002

This program looks really cool... until you see the work to be done in the config files. Then you tell yourself that their must be a way to download those extraordinary config files ! Guess what : you can't !!! Too bad, at least for now. I seem to understand that there's no importer fro the other config files but in the Samurize database, there is NO config files uploaded !!! People seems really jealous of their work and DO NOT want to share it. It's a really bad bad attitude if you want to get along in the skinning community... hope I'll be proved wrong...

MadEx2k2 reviewed v0.63b Beta on Aug 20, 2002

Seems cool, but why can't the site have configs for download? The screenshots there look awesome, but some don't have the skills to make something like that...

thurston reviewed v0.61 Beta on Aug 8, 2002

Wow...one heck of an interface to figure out but dead easy and extremely powerful once you do!

I love that it can display perfmon counters, now if there was only an option to log the results from the interface...

wattzz reviewed v0.61 Beta on Aug 8, 2002

sweet!!!

chakaman reviewed v0.60 Beta on Aug 8, 2002

If there was a 10 it sude get 15. GREAT ... GREAT...GREAT..
Speachless

//chaka

mitche reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 8, 2002

Awesome, Amazing, Fantastic. It's what I've always wanted in a little utility. You can display any statstics you want straight to your desktop. And with it not have to worry about annoying windows as it supports transparency. I personally recommend everyone to try it at least once.

super reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 4, 2002

Amazing!!
Taskbar support, transparent text and graphics!

Shadow Lord reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Great replacement program, great idea, and it is freeware so great price! Definetly 5 stars!

roma reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Absolutely great. There's almost nothing you can't do with it. Everithing you want to monitor you can display on your desktop or in the taskbar. Recommend it to everyone to try.

klumy reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Wow nice tool
Go on with it ;)

t3RRoR reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Simply the best programm in his category. Try it and love it ;)

Samurize Crew reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

eviljolly>> Yes. We'll have that fixed for the upcoming v0.60 release.

muu reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

What can i say...
The best sys monitor ever seen :)
Flawless!

BryGuy reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Rocks! Small footprint, very customizable, and does what it says... nice.

Ozzy1 reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

At last, a program that is small, quiet and do what is says.

Huntyz reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Beats the crap out of the opposition

eviljolly reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

Very nice program, but I wish there was a way that I could display motherboard temps in fahrenheit.

schonks reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 3, 2002

I can't think of any more to say. Looks like everbody else has said it. 10 out of 10

Snutte reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

Its too good to be true =)
Love the user friendly interface..
It seems like nothing is impossible with Samurize

SUOrangeman reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

Very, very cool program. Possibilities are limitless!

-SUO

Agon reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

Simply the best, powerfull, "maleable", versatile, you name it, this program has it all!

Mardagg reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

The best system monitor program around, bar none.

damme reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

This is the best sysmon I've ever used. You can build cool configs and it hardly takes resources at all! Great work, guys!

LimDul reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

Damn good program, have used it for 2 months now!

sweetfish reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

Best system monitoring util. I have ever seen! This is a must download!

camjo reviewed v0.57 Beta on Aug 2, 2002

I don´t know what I should say, it´s just perfect!